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Roadmap Talk Rebecca Solnit This truly seminal wr
iter comes to town armed with her copy of her freshly published Recollections of My Non-Existence. Chronicling her awakening as a feminist and environmentalist, this nonlinear memoir is set against the backdrop of her life in San Francisco since the early ‘80s. Solnit fled a volatile home life and found herself renting an apartment in a black neighbourhood and acquiring a writing desk from a friend who was nearly murdered by an ex. Enveloping growing gay pride, counter culturalism, West Coast activism and the latter years of second wave feminism, this is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. The acclaimed author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Men Explain Things to Me which inspired the term mansplaining is in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson as part of the Mountains to Sea book festival. Pavilion Theatre, Sunday March 29, 4pm, €12/€15 mountainstosea.ie Exhibition The Diceman Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of his passing this spring comes an appreciation of The Diceman. Thom McGinty was a much beloved Grafton Street character, intrinsic to the culture of the city and fondly remember by all those who encountered his mime antics during the ‘80s and ‘90s. He brought the street to a halt as onlookers crowded around for a gawk as he stood there impervious to their attention or undertook his ‘Zen walk’. And, then, with a wink or a flinch he tumbled their tension into mirth and awe. The late Gay Byrne conducted a sympathetic interview, with McGinty on The Late Late Show in 1988, in which he dispelled many of the myths and ignorance which existed at the time about the AIDS virus of which he suffered. He died age 42. This is the most fitting of tributes to one of the city’s most cherished. The Little Museum, 15 St Stephen’s Green, runs until May Performance Laurie Anderson The O Superman star returns following her successful 2017 NCH Residency to perform ‘Radio Play’ and ‘Here Comes the Ocean’. The former sees Laurie mix songs, stories, sound effects and electronics combining the power of poetic language, music and visualisation. Expect subtle highs and lows and slight of hand improvisational techniques. The later is an evening of improvisation against the backdrop of the drones, a guitar feedback work by Lou Reed performed by his collaborator Stewart Hurwood. “As musicians and composers we make works for the architecture of time,” says Anderson. Here’s a chance to be witness the construction. National Concert Hall, Saturday March 28 & Sunday March 29, €27.50-€37.50 5